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Bruins beat Blackhawks, lead Cup finals 2-1
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BOSTON — Tuukka Rask shut out the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night and got enough help from the Bruins' offense to do it without another exhausting overtime.
After playing four extra periods in the first two games, the Bruins made an early night of it with second-period goals by Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron to win 2-0 and take a 2-1 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.
"A win is a win. We'll take a win any day," said Rask, who stopped 28 shots for his third shutout of the 2013 playoffs. "We'll take a regulation win, for sure."
Corey Crawford made 33 saves for the Blackhawks.
Game 4 is Wednesday night in Boston before the matchup of Original Six franchises returns to Chicago for a fifth game. The teams split the first two games there, with the Blackhawks winning Game 1 in triple-overtime and the Bruins stealing home-ice advantage on Paille's goal in the first OT of the second game.
But this time the intrigue came before the opening faceoff instead of after the end of regulation.
Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara and Chicago forward Marian Hossa both left the ice after warmups. But while Chara needed just some stitches after his collision with teammate Milan Lucic, Hossa was a late scratch with an unspecified injury.
"I was as surprised as anybody else," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "I can definitely tell you they lost a pretty important player on their roster, but that doesn't mean we change our game. I think it's important we stick with what we believe in."
Julien said Chara slipped and "had a little gash over his eye."
"Nothing serious," Julien said of his captain and No. 1 defenseman, who still managed to lead the team in ice time.
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville was less forthcoming with information on Hossa's malady, sticking to the standard NHL diagnosis: Upper body.
"We'll say 'day-to-day.' We're hopeful he'll be ready for the next game," he said, adding that it did not happen during warmups, as had been reported on the team's Twitter account. "It was a game-time decision after the warmup there. That's when we made the call, after warmup."
Hossa, who has three game-winning goals in the playoffs this year, was tied for the team lead with 15 playoff points and was third on the Blackhawks with 17 goals during the regular season.
It was a loss the Blackhawks couldn't afford.
Not with Rask stopping everything that came his way.
"We ran up against some of the best goalies in the league here," Quenneville said. "Tonight I thought we made it rather easy on him as far as traffic and finding and seeing pucks. I think we've got to be better at going to the net."
Rask, who was a backup to Conn Smythe-winner Tim Thomas in the team's 2011 Stanley Cup run, didn't face as difficult a test as in the first period of Game 2, when the Blackhawks sent 19 shots at him but managed just one goal. But he stymied them all game and got some help from the post on Bryan Bickell's shot with 42 seconds left in the game.
The puck caromed off the right post and the goal light flickered on briefly, but play continued for another 30 seconds before the whistle blew and the game degenerated into fisticuffs. Chara was on top of Bickell, pounding away, and Andrew Shaw got the better of Brad Marchand.
By the time it was all sorted out, the benches were a little emptier but the scoring column for Chicago was still blank.
"You're playing the last five minutes of the game, you know they're going to throw everything they can at you," Rask said.
After a scoreless first period, the Bruins made it 1-0 when Paille slapped in the puck at 2:13 of the second, falling to one knee for extra power. It stayed that way until late in the second, when the Bruins picked up their first power plays of the game on two nearly identical plays, with a Bruin racing to the net and a Blackhawk undercutting his skates and sending him crashing into the left post.
Boston set up their offense during the 11-second two-man advantage, and just five seconds after it expired — but before Dave Bolland was able to get back into the play — Jaromir Jagr slid one across the middle, past Lucic in the center to Bergeron on the other side for the easy one-timer.
It was Jagr's 197th career playoff point in 199 games, moving him into sole possession of fifth place on the NHL's all-time postseason points list.
Notes: Jagr had been tied with Paul Coffey on the career postseason scoring list. … Two of Jagr's playoff points came on goals scored against the Blackhawks when they were swept by Penguins in 1992 final. … Boston's Gregory Campbell, who broke his leg blocking a shot in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals, attended the game. … The Bruins have killed off 27 straight penalties in the playoffs. … Boston's David Krejci entered the game tied with Chicago's Andrew Sharp for the most goals in the postseason with nine. The Bruins center entered the game leading all scorers with 23 points. … The Bruins are attempting to win a Cup for the second time in three seasons for the third time in their history. They also did it in 1939 and '41 and again in 1970 and '72. … Bruins won their seventh straight home playoff game. … The Blackhawks fell to 3-5 on the road in the postseason. … Ben Smith, who played just one game this regular season and none in the playoffs, replaced Hossa in the lineup. … Stalberg replaced Brandon Bollig in the lineup for Chicago.


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Police sealed off densely populated portions of the Boston metro area early Friday after a violent night of chasing the Boston Marathon terror suspects left one of the men and a police officer dead.
The manhunt effectively shut down a large portion of the nation's fifth-largest metro area.
Developments moved quickly:
— Connecticut authorities said a gray Honda CR-V with Massachusetts license plates had been recovered in the Boston area. An earlier alert said the vehicle "could possibly be occupied" by the surviving suspect. Meanwhile, heavily armed police swarmed over a Watertown, Massachusetts, neighborhood looking for the man, identified by Boston police as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.
— The slain suspect, identified by several sources as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the fugitive suspect's older brother, was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick.
— A Maryland man who said he was the suspects' uncle told CNN affiliate WBZ that Tamerlan Tsarnaev "got what he deserved." "What can I say for people who have been murdered? Sympathy," Ruslan Tsarni said. But a neighbor and former teacher at the high school Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended described the younger brother as "a wonderful kid" who seemed incapable of such violence.
— According to a source briefed on the investigation, the brothers came from the Russian Caucasus and had moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago.
— Police ordered businesses in the suburb of Watertown and nearby communities to stay closed and told residents to stay inside and answer the door for no one but authorities. Boston authorities advised the same. The city's subway, bus, Amtrak train systems and Greyhound and Bolt Bus — a regional carrier — have been shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended. Every Boston area school is closed.
–The search followed a violent night in which authorities say the men allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier, robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car.
Police warned Watertown residents to lock their homes and stay away from their windows and doors.
"It's jarring," said CNN Belief blog writer Danielle Tumminio, who lives in Watertown.
Oluwaseun Odewale, who lives in Arlington, described his neighborhood as "deathly quiet."
"All my doors are double-locked. It's silent all around, there are no usual sounds of cars, nothing," he said.
Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for possible explosives.
Police officers in full body armor, carrying automatic weapons, flooded the area, traveling the streets in convoys and going door-to-door to track the suspect down.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman Col. Timothy Alben asked residents for patience.
"We need more time," he said. "We're making significant progress up there. But it may take hours to do this."
"This situation is grave." Alben said earlier. "This is a very serious situation that we are dealing with."
Violent night
The violence began late Thursday with the robbery of a 7/11 convenience store, according to Alben.
Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.
The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a car at gunpoint in Cambridge. They released the driver a half-hour later at a gas station.
As police picked up the chase, the car's occupants threw explosives out the windows and shot at officers, according to the district attorney's office.
Officers fired back, wounding Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He later died at Beth Israel Hospital. A source briefed on the investigation says Tsarnaev was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered. His brother apparently escaped on foot.
Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's condition was not immediately known.
Details about the suspects
Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed three people Monday.
The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line.
The first suspect — apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to authorities — appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, is the one who remains at large, police said.
The men moved to the United States at least a few years ago, according to sources.
A statement from the office of Chechnya's president echoed that: "According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russian region," press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Russia's semi-official Interfax news agency. "After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit. Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, the source said. He then took a year off to train as a boxer.
The source said that a posting on a social media site in his name included the comments: "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high school, said Eric Mercado, who graduated a year behind the suspect. Mercado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard.
"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Mercado told CNN.
"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokhar. It's all coming as a shock, really."
Mercado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother.
Larry Aaronson, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, called him a "wonderful kid."
"He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial," Aaronson told CNN.
CNN's Terence Burke, Dave Alsup, Carma Hassan, Jake Tapper, Drew Griffin, Steve Almasy and Chandler Friedman contributed to this report.
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You'd think progressives would be natural allies of labor. Not necessarily, as the lede-up to the liberal confab reveals.
The sixth annual Netroots Nation (nee Yearly Kos) is being held in suddenly swampy downtown Minneapolis, Minn. The pre-conference events Wednesday consisted of two all-day marathon strategy sessions for two largely separate groups who both just so happen to have breaking news this week: the LGBT community and the labor movement.
In California on Tuesday a federal judge dismissed the challenge of a ruling made by Judge Vaughn Walker on Proposition 8. The appeal was based on the known fact that the judge is in a long-term homosexual relationship and therefore, according to the challenge, is unable to rule on the merits of the case. Judge Walker's ruling against Prop 8 now stands. And in New York, the state legislature is debating making gay marriage legal in the state. A final vote could happen as soon as Friday.
In adjacent generic conference rooms at the Hilton were these progressive powwows. The (closed to the media but bloggers were invited) LGBT session was boisterous. Loud. It spilled over and through the partition into the open whisper-level labor meeting. They weren't celebratory -- they were energized.
They're winning ... duh.
Labor, however, is not having as good a time ... really at anything. High unemployment makes unions easy targets. The under-employed resent those with pensions and health plans. And management is by definition not in line with the unions. Ditto owners and Republicans. And a higher court ruled this week that Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's law to strip public unions of collective bargaining now stands.
So, where does labor stand with progressives?
The AFL-CIO has always participated in Netroots Nation. It shows up every year with a booth and hands out spiffy union-made swag. But this year it's different. Labor has taken some hard hits under a wave of new Republican governors in Michigan and Ohio. Union membership in the private sector is down below seven percent. To everyone's surprise, it's down even in the last two years with a labor-backed Democrat in the White House. "This is our chance to get out of the booth at the exhibit hall and have a deeper conversation," said Joseph Geevarghese, Deputy Director at Change to Win, a coalition of American labor unions.
The labor movement now talks about Wisconsin in the same way people talk of 9/11: It changed things. Geevarghese notes Wisconsin where the labor movement was born -- and now it's seen as the best place to kill it.
But now, like 9/11, it's also become a rallying cry. Progressives and liberals (the distinctions and differences have never been clearly explained to me) have largely not paid attention to organized labor. They weren't out supporting unions and union interests, notes Geevarghese, "Before Wisconsin from progressives it was largely indifference." Communications Director at Change to Win Paco Fabian uses the word "ambivalence" to describe progressives' attitude toward labor. "They have no familial relationship with unions. They don't know what unions do," he said.
"It's not that progressives forgot about labor until Wisconsin," said Firedoglake blogger David Dayen, who was invited to the session. "Everybody did."
So that was the goal of the all-Wednesday cabal -- remembering why labor used to be important. The solemn group of organizers, activists and bloggers aired their grievances with labor being "demonized." They talked about messaging. They discussed strategy. They in short: They communicated.
Is this going to make a difference? Will this save organized labor? Did the hosts of the event feel like they got out of this what they were hoping for? Did something start here in the Marquette III room today?
Fabian seemed optimistic in his resolve, "It's really all about the follow-up."
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Matt Ross is 33 now, and has been the subject of my column twice before — in 2001 and in 2003. He was in his early 20s then.
He had been a street kid. He had an alcoholic mother and an absent father, and he left home for the first time when he was 16. He ended up in Toronto's Covenant House, a crisis shelter for teens. He wore out his welcome there after drinking and doing drugs. For two years, he drifted between shelters and the street. He sold drugs to make a living. He tried going back to school and failed.
Frustrated and fed up, Matt left Toronto and followed his father out to Vancouver, where he had started a new family. Matt hitchhiked across the country. Their reunion did not go well. They fought. Matt left after two months.
He needed a place to stay, and he found it in Vancouver's Covenant House, the sister shelter to the one in Toronto. At that time, the Covenant House shelter at Drake and Seymour only had 22 beds, but Matt was given a temporary spot. He tried a second reunion with his father. Again, it did not go well. Again, he moved out. He found shelter where he could, sometimes on friends' couches, sometimes at Covenant House.
It was around then when I first met Matt. Covenant House was just opening its new Rights of Passage transitional building at 326 West Pender, where street kids could live in their own apartments for up to two years. Candidates for the apartments were expected to hold down a job of at least 30 hours a week while completing high school. They would have to pay rent, observe a curfew and abstain from drugs and alcohol. In return, they got counselling and 24-hour supervision.
Matt was its first resident.
I wrote that first column about Matt then, and about his hope for a better life.
I wrote a second column about him in 2003, when I revisited Matt to see how he was doing. He had left Rights of Passage and moved into his own apartment. He had gone back to school and enrolled in a counselling course for drug and alcohol addiction at Vancouver Community College. He got a job at Covenant House helping street kids his own age. He travelled around the province doing advocacy workshops for the Ministry for Children and Youth. And he was working with the Native Health Association, doing supervisory shifts at safe houses.
He was 24, and seemed on his way.
And that was the last, I thought, I would see of Matt Ross.
Last week, I was at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre hall, where I had been invited to help out at the annual Christmas dinner the staff of the Strathcona Mental Health team puts on for its clients. My son is a case manager with the team, and at one point, we were on our way back to the kitchen when we passed a group of people talking.
David stopped and said: "Dad, you remember Matt, don't you?"
And there was Matt. We looked at each other, a little surprised, and shook hands. He was an adult now — articulate, self-possessed, without that diffident air of someone still finding his way.
I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was a mental health care worker with the Strathcona team. He had a caseload of 70 clients, many of them dual-diagnosis cases with both severe mental health and addiction issues. His desk was next to my son's.
He was married now, he said. He met his wife while working at one of the Native Health Association safe houses, where she had been on staff. They had a two-year-old daughter.
They were living, he said, in the Commercial Drive area in a house owned by the Ministry of Children and Family Development. It was a semi-independent transitional home for children and teens in need, Matt said, and he and his wife ran the home.
"In effect, we're specialized foster parents, and at the moment, we have four kids in their teens — two boys and two girls."
They had done it for seven years, Matt said, and in that time had helped foster 35 kids. A few had lapsed, he said, and ended up back on the street, but most of them had made progress.
"Our impression so far is, kids that come into our home typically graduate from high school, which is fantastic, which is our goal."
I asked him — considering his origins — how he felt about the arc of his life.
"Well, it's fascinating, isn't it? To go from where I've been to where I'm going. I couldn't imagine a better place to be right now.
"Not a day goes by when I don't think I have the best possible life I could have."


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The Russian Meteorite
New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered the atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).
The estimated size of the object, prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, has been revised upward from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its estimated mass has increased from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Also, the estimate for energy released during the event has increased by 30 kilotons to nearly 500 kilotons of energy released. These new estimates were generated using new data that had been collected by five additional infrasound stations located around the world – the first recording of the event being in Alaska, over 6,500 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk. The infrasound data indicates that the event, from atmospheric entry to the meteor's airborne disintegration took 32.5 seconds. The calculations using the infrasound data were performed by Peter Brown at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you have a fireball of this size we would expect a large number of meteorites to reach the surface and in this case there were probably some large ones."
The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object. The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia.
Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.
The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the Sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere.
Studying impact events on Earth is of great importance to astrobiologists. Long ago, meteorite impacts may have delivered materials that were important in the origins of life on our planet. Large impacts may have also played a role in shaping the evolution of the biosphere, triggering mass extinction events like the one that brought an end to the age of dinosaurs.


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Southampton commemorates Titanic anniversary
(AP) LONDON - Exactly 100 years from the day when the ill-fated Titanic sailed from Southampton, the English port city is paying tribute with a series of events to mark the tragic anniversary.
Southampton was home to more than a third of the more than 1,500 people who died when the ship hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.
On Tuesday, more than 650 descendants of those on board gathered for a ceremony at the same berth on the city's docks where the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912.
They threw flowers and wreaths into the water where the White Star liner left port, then a moment of silence was held to remember those who lost their lives in the tragedy.
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A recording of the Titanic's whistle sounded on the docks at noon the exact moment the RMS Titanic slipped her moorings before a boat built in the same era re-enacted the doomed liner's departure.
The dockside service ended with the hymn "Nearer My God To Thee," which was said to have been played by the ship's musicians as Titanic sank.
Vanessa Beecham, from Southampton, paid tribute to her great uncle Edward Biggs, a firefighter aboard who died at age 21. She said the ceremony was "tasteful and moving."
"It was a worry during the anniversary that the families would be forgotten in all the razzmatazz ... but this was lovely," she said.
Later, hundreds of Southampton schoolchildren paraded to the city center carrying placards with photographs of locals who had died aboard the ship.
Southampton also opened a new museum SeaCity on Tuesday. The museum tells the story of Southampton's connection to the sea, with a focus on the Titanic story.
The museum opening and tributes in Southampton are among the many commemorations and memorials to the reputedly unsinkable ship that have sprung up to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's final voyage.
On Sunday, Southampton saw off the MS Balmoral on a 12-day Titanic Memorial Cruise to retrace the route of the Titanic with the exact same number of passengers aboard.


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Sightings of unknown water creatures have been part of the human experience for millennia, and they continue today. Whether classic (and for the most part disproved) like the Loch Ness Monster, relatively recently described like the Cadborosaurus, or confirmed like the giant squid – the idea of large, unknown creatures lurking beneath the water's surface has always held a grip on the human imagination. That's why the Mysterious Destinations Team was intrigued by reports of large and unknown sea creatures that have been observed in the San Francisco Bay area. Click here for the full story...
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The busy waters of San Francisco Bay may not seem the likeliest place to find reclusive cryptids like sea serpents, but both history and current events seem to contradict that assumption. Recent sightings include an observation of a serpentine animal raising its head and long neck from the water near the Golden Gate and a woman who saw a large serpentine creature consume a whole pelican in one bite. A compelling video has been captured as well. For the full story, click here...
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text: 10 tips for how to handle me now that I'm a bride #Friends & Family Advice#identity Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Mar 26 2012) Guest post by hathycol Bride pug sez: treat me like a normal pug, pleez! (Thanks to Darcy for uploading this to our Flickr pool forever ago!) I am getting married and I am, to the surprise of myself and those around me, not a wreck. Hurrah! However, there are some things I have noticed about the way people are treating me that is causing some strife. So here is my guide to handling me now that I'm a bride. Related Post Forget your contacts and bask in these brides wearing glasses on their wedding days! Should you wear your glasses on your wedding day? We've got two strategies for you -- and neither one of them is "wear contacts." 1. DO NOT ask me if I'll be wearing my glasses on the day. I wear my glasses during every waking hour. I cannot see without them. So, at what point exactly is it sensible for me to take my glasses off? In fact, that leads me to my second rule… 2. PLEASE TRY not to suggest things about my looks. I have been surprised at the sheer level of vanity/paranoia that the whole "bride" thing has set off; comments are innocently made, but combined with the knowledge that these photos are going to be around FOREVER I am paranoid. So, er, unless I am actively asking your opinion then don't opine on my looks if you wouldn't do it to me normally. 3. DO NOT tell me your horror stories. "On my wedding day, the priest got our names wrong and I fell over my own veil," the wife of my boss cheerfully told me the other day. I nearly cried. They are funny stories, I will freely admit, just not at the moment. 4. DO tell me your horror stories about stuff that cannot possibly happen on my wedding day. A friend told me about a wedding she attended where the child of the pastor ran around unchecked for the whole thing. There is no child of the pastor at my wedding, so I can laugh and also faintly be victorious that whatever may go wrong at my wedding, this will not be it. 5. DO NOT ask me open-ended questions that can be solved with common sense. I cannot arrange how you are getting to the wedding. I am sorry. I provided instructions with the invitations. I am also unable to find you shoes, tell you when you check in to your hotel (yes, a real question!), or advise what time you should take off work. 6. DO ask me specific questions. I got a text enquiring if a guest house someone had found was a sensible distance from the town. I can answer these questions without having the sense that I'm having to organise you on top of organising myself. 7. DO NOT assume the groom is in some way invisible, or not helping with the wedding. We've split it remarkably equally. 8. DO ask me about the day. Look, I like to burble about it, and to be honest I can't help it. I enjoy talking about it! 9. DO tell me about stuff that has nothing to do with the wedding. Please, please, please tell me about the course you're doing. Tell me about your new job. Chat with me about Being Human and why Tom is ace. Discuss that new book with me. Tell me about why you're never drinking gin again after what you did last weekend. Bitch with me about your neighbours. I am still a person who isn't this mythical bride figure. I like being the centre of attention, and it's a fabulously easy (and fun!) topic to talk about, but I can be drawn along a line of just talking about it and that is a bit rubbish. 10. Finally, DO tell me when I'm being ridiculous. I tend to hysteria at the best of times, and now I'm even worse. Laugh at me, I need it. So, tell me, what are your rules for how YOU want to be treated as a bride? Guest post written by hathycol I am an enormous sci-fi geek. We met at the Doctor Who Society of our university, so we're planning a fairly geeky wedding. http://tribe.offbeatbride.com/members/hathycol PREVIOUS Star Trek decor, retro bridesmaids, and Etsy weddings event in NYC April 28th! NEXT Erin & Matt's crafty music-inspired quirky wedding Show/Hide comments [ 112 ] One of my "rules" is that unless it risks life or limb don't question a decision I and my FH have made. Reply I could not agree with your rule more. I wish my FMIL would follow it… about my choice of earrings (they're gauged so I need to wear gauged earrings), our choice of late night food (nacho cheese fountain ftw!), the times our photographer has told us he has to be where for what pictures (she thinks he will wait for her if she is late getting ready, and cutting time out of MY getting-ready pictures), my surprising FH with the ceremony music… Sorry, ranting. 🙂 Reply Nachos cheese fountain! That is so cool! Reply lol ya eh! FMILs response "Ewwww, I think I'll stick to chocolate fountains". Too bad their ain't going to be one! Reply haha no way! I just texted my fiance: Nacho cheese fountain! Nacho cheese fountain! That is brilliant. Holy nacho cheese!!! I so want this. The FH will want it EVEN MORE. This is so full of win, I can barely handle it. Reply Wait wait wait wait wait. They make NACHO CHEESE FOUNTAINS?!? My life is forever changed. Reply It's like a fondue pot that turned into an overflowing lava lamp. I want this so badly. Reply My one and only rule is no ridiculous drama. I don't want to hear about any fighting/disagreements/issues between guests. It's incredibly selfish and avoidable. Reply Do not ask me what I have left to do. No matter how much I've already accomplished, my "to do" list seems dauntingly long and no amount of telling me not to worry about it will ease my stress. So just don't ask! Reply I assume that "What do you have left to do that I can help with or do for you?" is an okay question, though 🙂 Reply Haha yea just respond with "oh are you asking to help out with something?" 🙂 Reply Perfect! May sanity continue to bless you, hathycol! Reply My three rules (in addition to the ones you posted that I TOTALLY agree with): 1. Stop telling me it is the happiest/most important/best day of my life. It is ONE of the best days, but I would like to think it is at least the same as, say, the birth of my future children, or the day I finally finish my doctoral work, or when my future spouse or myself FINALLY land a full-time job. It will be a great day, but let's not add more pressure by insinuating that it has to be the best day of my life! 2. Don't think anything about my wedding has to be perfect, especially if you are involved in it in any way. I have already accepted that something will go wrong, and you will probably enjoy yourself more if you accept that, too! 3. Do try to keep an open mind about my non-traditional wedding and have fun! Reply Great article and I agree 100% with #2. I am 37 and I have what I think are really great grey streaks growing in my bangs. My hair dresser is obssesed with them and I think they are neat. I started greying early but it is the most gorgeous silvery grey I can't color over it, I like it!! I can not tell you how many people have asked/suggested that I will color my hair for the wedding. Why would I do that?! Reply Aw, lucky! I'm very much hoping for grey or white streaks in my hair. Reply I don't think it's that early…It might just be that lots of people dye theirs Reply Agreed, I am 31, and have plenty of gray. My FH says it doesn't make me look old, I make the gray look young, (insert ahhhh here.) Reply Gray and 32 here. I dye mine a little but I leave bug chucks of gray and it's staying like that for the wedding. Silver is the new black! Reply Haha, I can beat you all! I started getting grey strands at 23 (I'm 25 now) from stress. And now I'm wedding planning.. I have no doubt my whole head will be grey by the end of this wedding! I'm 29 and have a grey stripe -it's spreading a little, but is still mainly a stripe. It's been developing since I was about 24, I guess it must be a little genetic as my sister has a lot of grey and my Mum was pretty grey quite early. I like to say I'm cultivating the Caitlin Moran/Rogue/badger look. A couple of people have asked if I'll dye it, and while I won't for the wedding, I can't rule out ever dying my hair. Maybe I'll dye it to leave just the one chunk of grey! 🙂 People keep asking me if I'm going to change my pink hair to a more natural colour for the wedding. Have they met me? 😉 Pink pretty much IS my natural colour! Reply I have to have natural-colored hair for my stupid corporate job (which I HATE–the job AND the natural hair, YUCKO!) and I just informed my mother yesterday that I will SO being doing fun-colored hair for the wedding. Oh we're definitely talking blue here, possibly some other colors as well. Maybe synth dreads, too! Oh hells yes. Reply I, too, have been forced to resign my old crazy-hair ways for working a job (urk.) However, I will do whatever I need to to have wild hair. I miss it terribly and want the pictures of that day to really show ME! Probably insertable extensions for the day in any colors I happen to be in the mood for! 😀 Reply Hehe I love these tips. I have had purple hair since 1994. My 3 children don't even know what my "natural" colour is. They assume it is purple… I can't wait to go grey, so I can stop bleaching it. My other half is 9 years younger and has greys, no fair! Of course your hair will be pink! Idjits! Reply I wish I had worn a shirt that said "Don't expect me to be excited about EVERYTHING wedding." I loved talking about my Cookie Monster card box or carefully coordinated table numbers, but when asked about flowers, people didn't like my "meh, whatever" responses. Reply This sounds like me. I'm extremely excited about the star trek communicator boutineers and serving our home brewed beer, but can't bring myself to care about flowers. People seem more shocked by the fact that I am seriously thinking I might just ditch flowers all together than about any other aspect of my wedding. Reply I was excited about flowers…but only because I was knitting them. 😉 Reply Communicator boutinierres = WIN. Reply Haha, people thought it was akin to blasphemy when I told them I didn't really know (or care) about wedding colors. Reply Oh how wonderful… I wish I'd had this before my wedding, just to make copies and hand it to people. Reply A rule I have specific to my sister/maid of honor: In the event I start losing sanity and pull a bridezilla, spray me in the face with a spray bottle, tap me on the nose and say "NO." Because cat discipline works on me. And hopefully it'll make me pause, laugh and focus on the truly important aspects of the day! Reply My MOH has started carrying a rolled newspaper when we're together for those times that I'm losing it. Nothing pulls you back to earth faster than a smack on the head! Reply Mine have been instructed to pour me a drink. Reply Thank you for the glasses comment. My sisters made me all nervous about me wanting to wear my glasses (I really don't like wearing contacts). Fortunately my FH likes me in my glasses and WANTS me to wear them and my sisters did apologize for making me worry about it. Other than that it's just been some comments about how small (not inviting everyone to help keep costs down) and pretty casual we're keeping it (again, keeping cost down). Mostly they're benign questions. I actually tend not to talk about it too much because I don't really want to know what everyone else thinks about it and make me second guess too much. As long as my FH and I are happy with it, people have fun and we're married by the end of it, I call it a success 🙂 Reply I was surprised to find out that people *wouldn't* have been surprised if I didn't wear my glasses. I wear mine about half the time (I'm nearsighted so anytime I have to drive anywhere, they're on for the duration but around the house I don't usually bother), which means that people always see me with them on. I don't wear contacts. And, quite frankly, I like how I look in glasses! (Also, Mr. S wears glasses — he can't go without them, but nobody thought *he* should get contacts for the wedding!) Reply lol @ "but nobody thought "he" should get contacts for the wedding" Sooo true. Is anyone asking the men, "are you going to grow your hair out?" Or "how much weight do want to lose before the wedding?" Or "are you going to get spanx?" It makes me nutso that there is such a double standard. He's going to be in the pictures too! Reply Tehehe 'are you going to get spanx?'. You made me laugh my coffee onto myself. But so true. Reply There is a double standard in the normal attire too though. Nobody is going to comment on arm/back/whatever fat if you are wearing a suit, but the chances are higher if you are wearing a strapless/backless/etc dress. Reply Yeah, I was totally rocking the back fat at my wedding! 😉 Yes, it happens. Trust me. In defense of the men, well, actually, to an extent, yes. I get your point, but it's worth voicing the vastly-underrepresented voice… I'm getting the 3rd degree from various people about *my* appearance (not the bride's) as well as constructive an not-so-constructive criticism about our various wedding choices. To date, *I* have done the majority of the planning for our wedding, so many of the questions are being directed to me. I guess my point is that I'm not so sure it's a "double-standard" as much as the groom is so very often left out of so much of the planning (by chance or by choice) that there's no point in talking to him about the decisions. Reply Yeah, I love my glasses, I put a lot in to picking out frames I love on me. Besides it sort of bothers me to think about drastically changing my every day look. I want to look back at my wedding pictures and know it was me there. Reply Husband and I would not look like ourselves without our glasses so despite pleas from our mothers and queries from vendors and photographers, we wore our glasses at our wedding. We wouldn't be us without them! We want to look like us in our photos! I walked out of a vendor interview over this. I also walked out of a shop when I was told Husband's opinion "didn't matter". Reply I wear glasses 95% of the time, as in… When I'm not in bed. I did not wear them on my wedding day, but my husband had my glasses in his tux pocket and handed them to me so I could read my vows. For some reason, this caused everyone who noticed to laugh hysterically. I think it was a good thing, because it broke up the ceremony and I was not as nervous about reading my vows and somehow managed to do so with a smile on and without breaking into hysterical happy sobbing. I do regret not wearing my glasses all day, though. I look at my wedding photos now, three years later, and I notice myself squinting in most of them. My face doesn't look like ME because I don't have the glasses on . On the other hand, hubby wore his glasses all day because he is blind as a bat without them. He has transitions lenses and he looks like he is wearing sun glasses for all the outdoor photos… Which was actually why I didn't wear mine… My glasses also have the transitions lenses. A good suggestion I wish I had received is: are you going to get special fun glasses for your wedding with anti glare that are not transitions? That way we can see your beautiful eyes and you can see us too!! Reply So many tips for me, that I wish I had the balls to share with my real life folks. Such as… Don't imply that I am doing something wrong because it's not on your timeline. You realize I'd still have a good 20-30 people show up if I never sent out invitations? Suck it. Also, believe me when I say that my (male) fiance is handling this or that. He's pretty smart and competent. But who cares, I'm just marrying him because he's a cutie, right? And for the fuck's sake, do not ask me if I am getting excited. No. I am socially awkward and terrified. I don't want to share my issues with you, random person who apparently likes weddings way more than I do! Reply Love this about the timeline. Future MIL sent out invites on our behalf 15 months before the wedding, because we said that we weren't doing them yet and possibly not at all because everyone had already booked rooms at the venue and knew the details. Reply The are you excited thing: so true. I am 100% excited about being married, but can't wait to get through the wedding – worrying like crazy, can't help myself. "I am socially awkward and terrified. I don't want to share my issues with you, random person who apparently likes weddings way more than I do!" – LOVE. So true. Reply Do Not make me a middle man between fighting family members. Cause honestly a couldn't give a $#!£ Reply Caveat to this: my grandmother has alzheimers, my uncle is in denial, and he's dragged my mother to court over it. Once lawyers are involved, forget about it… So, modified rule? Don't drag me into the middle of family arguments any more than I am. Addendum: people who talk about my mamma that way (and drag lawyers into it wtf) are NOT invited. Suck it. Reply Do not tell me who I need to invite, assuming your idea of who I'm closest to is better than my own. Reply do not tell me what i need to "make" my FH do. i do NOT need to "make" him cut his hair, i LIKE his long hair and more importantly? he's a goddamn grown-up who can make his own decisions about his hair/life/everything, so stop telling me what you expect HIM to do. Reply I too hate the attitude that my FH must be some kind of very large child who can't manage to think Reply Amen! Reply No. 1 was so funny and so true. I don't actually wear glasses, but thanks for reminding me not to ask any brides either. weddingscan.com Reply I heart this post so hard. <3 I got married in January, and the 10 rules I retroactively put in place are: 1) If you want to bring a partner, that's totally cool. Just tell me when you originally RSVP. Not two days before. And ring us and tell us you want to bring a partner- don't let my husband find out through someone else. :/ 2) If you're stuck as to where it is you're going (and fair enough, bits of paper get lost), don't text me about half an hour before the ceremony asking where to go. Chances are I will not be checking my phone at that point. 3) Do not rant to me that there is "no point spending a lot of money on a wedding because 50% of marriages fail." Surprisinly enough, it's not helpful. 4) Neither is telling me that, unless my partner and I do a pre-marriage course, we will go the same way as my parents did (who divorced when I was 11). 5) Please don't make any comments regarding dieting, weight or not eating particular foods because I won't fit into my dress. It's a very sensitive topic in the first place. 6) Continuing on from that (and what you said in your post), don't give me a hard time about something wrong with my appearance because "a bride is meant to be a princess". I'm not a princess- just a regular girl who fell in love with a guy. Plus, it may give me a complex, and that's not cool. 7) For after the day, don't tell me if anything went horribly wrong. Because, surprisingly enough, there's nothing we can do about it now. Plus, it might just make me feel like shit knowing that something major did go wrong, when we might previously have though it all went perfectly. 8) Yes, I am hyphenating my surname. Cos, well, it's my name and my choice. Deal. 9) I am aware that I am frantically trying to get all my DIY projects finished a mere three days before my wedding. Please do not bring this to my attention, with statements such as, "OMG have you not finished that yet?!" A) it does not help my state of mind, and B) if I were finished it, why would I still be working on it? 10) Please, for the love of God, keep your opinions to yourself. Reply 3) <— Really? REALLY?!?!?! Good on you for not revoking that individual's invitation. Reply They were a work colleague, and not invited in the first place! To be fair, the rant was not directed *at* me- but it was said in my prescence, when my wedding was brought up in conversation. I don't know- call me crazy, but I don't know if discussing divorce rates with someone planning a wedding is such a hot idea. Reply Ah, yes, the divorce chatter. I get a LOT of that from people because this is marriage #2 for me. You'd think that tact would keep people from making some incredibly inappropriate comments to me, but no. I particularly love the people who jokingly say things like "well, it's 50%, so you've cleared that hurdle, haven't you? Hahaha!" 😐 Reply a week after announcing our engagement, i got "second time's a charm!" from three different family members. yeah, thanks for reminding me…. Reply I can top that. My father in law was video taping the ceremony (my 2nd and my husband's 3rd) and made it a point to "whisper" so it would be recorded "The theme for this should be. .."I've Heard This Song Before". BTW, that was a little over 20 years ago???? Reply When my fiance told his mom we were getting married she said "Why? I've known people who have been married for 35 years and then their partner left them, why would you want to take that chance?" I pointed out that in 35 years I'll be 72 so I probably won't be cheating on him at that point. He pointed out to her that you can't live life not doing something because "what if?" Oh yeah, that's why I love him! Reply Ugh! The divorce comments are the worst. I'm sorry that they had that experience- no one should have to go through that- but they seriously had to bring it up? I don't even know what to say to these people. Reply I kind of want to make a t-shirt with rule #2 made up for my wedding day. My sister and mother keep making comments like "who have you gotten to do manicures?" or "are you going to do pilates to get in shape for the wedding?" I will be rock climbing the day before and the day after my wedding, and I've painted my nails about twice, ever. Getting married doesn't suddenly make me want to have high-maintenance hands. Same with the pilates- I guess my usual weekly 10 miles of running, 35 miles of biking, and 3 evenings of climbing and weight lifting aren't enough- brides clearly belong in pilates class. Reply I hate the manicure questions, too! It takes so much restraint for me not to respond, "when have you EVER seen me with nail polish??" Reply I've got a reply waiting for the manicure question! It's "Are YOU going to pay for it?" I'm just not one of those people that want's to spend money on my hands. (These are the same hands that work with nails, screws, saws, and hot glue, every day.) Reply Yeah, pilates isn't a workout when you already have that level of fitness. Besides a manicure is totally incompatible with rock climbing, either it will get wrecked or get in the way. Reply Tom totally is ace, though I miss George, Mitchell and Nina. :*( Awesome post, thanks for inserting some rationality into what so many people assume is a lawlwessness zone! Reply "Chat with me about Being Human and why Tom is ace" is just a requirement for me with anyone right now, wedding or no wedding! Agreed; love this post, and all the comments, for bringing it all back down to earth. Reply 1) Don't ask me if I'm excited. Of course I'm looking forward to it; but I also have two assignments due, a new job, and some semblance of a life. My existence doesn't revolve around our wedding. Reply My one thing is do not-for the love of all that is good and holy in this world- tell me I "can't" do something. "You can't have zombies" (yes the hell I can!!) :)If someone tells me I can't it actually kinda means I have to now 🙂 Oh and also that whole diet crap….WTF is that about? Why do I have to diet for one day? STUUUUUPID!! Reply One rule, and one rule only: THE BRIDES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. Except for the kitten jousting pit, but we'll blame that on sleep deprivation. Reply I'll agree with you, with two caveats: A) The groom is *also* always right and 2) There's a whiskey fountain and BBQ-ribs cake in the middle of the kitten-jousting-pit Reply My only addition to the list would be, Don't assume that everything I do has to do with the wedding. My life is much more complex than one day. I am so sick of hearing "oh wow you guys look great, did you lose weight for the wedding"….heck no, we changed our eating to be more healthy and have a better quality of life…FFS Reply Ask me questions about things other than the wedding. I have a whole lot more going on in my life than just organising a wedding, and quite frankly it's more stressful and I probably want to bitch about it more than I do about wedding things. Reply My partner and I have been engaged for a couple months and are about to publicly announce it (close family & friends know). While our wedding isn't for another year and a half and we have yet to receive much feedback yet, I am definitely anticipating it; thank you for breaching this topic! So far, I think my rules are: 1) If you are so terribly concerned about my DIY projects and the timeline, you are more than welcome to join the DIY team instead of constantly check in. 2) Yes, we are sure we want to encourage space-themed costumes alongside retro-formal… Please 3) To underscore many of the above commenters: YES! My [male] partner is 100% involved in decision-making and final say on everything we are planning. Fucking deal with it. <3 4) Please keep the "shoulds" to yourself unless one of us asks you or you're already on a "team". 5) Please do not ask how we are financing it unless you are following that question up with an offer to help fund it… We've got this, trust us. 6) No, I am not doing anything special to my body to prepare for the "big day"; don't ask. I take damn good care of myself and am only splurging on my hairdresser pal giving me a fancy hairstyle because she's damn good. 7) Again, please stifle the "shoulds". 8) Even though the professionals we hire are indeed our friends, please treat them like professionals, they know BEST. Thanks for all the thought-provoking comments, everyone. Now maybe there could be a future article on dealing with gift/gift registry options for the people who don't need "stuff" but have people who REALLY want to give a gift. 🙂 Reply "Now maybe there could be a future article on dealing with gift/gift registry options for the people who don't need "stuff" but have people who REALLY want to give a gift." I second this!!! Reply We've done lots of those posts: http://offbeatbride.com/tag/registry-alternative Reply We had that problem too. So instead of getting toasters and food processors (which we definitely DON'T need), we decided to register at thehoneymoon.com People can pay for different aspects of the honeymoon. You organise your honeymoon into different meals/ activities/ etc. and people pay for those specific things. Way better than a dumb set of silverware. Reply Re: #1, I suggest this phrasing: "Wow, you seem to be really excited about this DIY stuff. You know we could always use extra hands, why don't you come around [the next time you're having a DIY team meeting] and join the team!" Either you will end up with an extra pair of hands, or they will bugger off. Reply a massive yes to number 5 and I'd expand it a little to include "DON'T stress to me about your outfit etc constantly for fear you might clash with the wedding colours/ be the same colour as the bridesmaids/ be wearing flat when everyone else is in heels…". I'm not Victoria Beckham – I really don't care! Reply I second this! I think my list is growing… Reply My FMIL is SO obsessed over this… concerned with colors, and with what my mom is wearing… she's been asking for over a year… we're 3 months to go and I don't think my mom has even thought about what she's wearing… you're not going to be wearing the same dress, it'll be FINE! haha Reply MOB here again, with 6 weeks to go and here's my addition, relevant to the stage we're presently in …. rsvp, please. Those little envelopes that are pre-addressed and already stamped? Just check one of the boxes, write in your names and drop it off at a mailbox as soon as you know whether or not you can come. No hidden agendas please, and no guilt if you can't come. Please don't say yes when you really just feel bad about saying no and then be a no-show. And please don't go on about the 7 other events you have within the same 10 day period, just say no! It's okay, really! It's an invitation, not an obligation! Whew, that feels better. Reply I'm at the 3.5 week mark and STILL waiting for RSVP's (despite having a clear deadline written in 3 different areas in the invite). I completely feel your pain. We have breached the "etiquette rules" and have finally started calling, emailing, facebook messaging for an answer, ANY answer. I will never ever not RSVP again. I want to go back to everyone I think I may have not RSVP'd to in the past and profusely apologize lol Reply Today's the RSVP date…so phone calls begin this week. I wish we had put a note on the RSVP: If we have been friends for more than a decade, or you are supposed to have a role on our wedding day, please include a darn good explanation instead of just checking the "No" box. Reply I just want to add that I received some of the funniest responses from some of our cousins. One wrote a poem about how stoked he was to celebrate with us. Another made a cartoon picture of my husband and I as super heroes. I saved these RSVP cards. So I would add- please feel free to make whatever you are putting in that pre-addressed stamped envelope to us funny. We need a bit of humor because we were totally stressed and your creativity just gave us that burst of energy to finish all our last minute DIY projects. Reply Add on to #2: When I'm dress shopping, DON'T tell me how the dress can give me more curves here and less here, etc. I already know what's going on with my body – I don't need people to point out my flat butt/bust and try to stuff me with padding up the ying yang! I'm not fooling anyone with those fake boob inserts! 🙂 Reply 1) Quit passing judgement on me, my relationship, and my plans to get married at all. My relationship is none of your business, and I didn't tell you about my upcoming wedding just so you could say, "oh dear, that's a bit soon, isn't it?" or "are you SURE it's a good idea? Divorce rates are very high, you know…". Stuff it unless you can be happy for me. 2) I know that planning a whole wedding with a month's notice is madness. You really don't have to point that out or tell me that it's impossible. It's possible because I'm doing it. 3) I'd really like it if other brides quit making faces at me when I talk about my plans. Yes, you're wearing a £5,000 dress, saved up for a year to pay for your big, shabby-chic wedding, are getting married in a giant church, and inviting 150 people. I'm not, and that's okay. I don't pull faces when you talk about your plans, please respect that my plans for a small, retro-styled, brightly coloured wedding are just as valid as your traditional ones. Reply "I don't pull faces when you talk about your plans, please respect that my plans for a small, retro-styled, brightly coloured wedding are just as valid as your traditional ones." Word to the wordy word. Some friends of mine got married two weeks after we did- and, every time our wedding was mentioned, my guy friend took every opportunity possible to criticise and question mine and hubby's plans. Everything from my choice to hyphenate my surname, from my coloured dress, to our first dance song, to my decision to invite my former stepmother to the wedding was met with disdain. And did I comment on him and his wife's choices? No. So yeah, I hear ya. My friend's judgements actually really hurt my feelings, and implied that him and his wife were so much better and more cultured than we were because they had a more traditional wedding. But…as I said in my bridal profile which was featured today (NZ crafty wedding), "Haters gonna hate"! Reply OMG what a cute cute dog… love this blog i'm going to share it with my best friends who's getting married soon – she'll love it Reply I'm sick of everybody asking me about logistics. Mostly because that's 100% the work of my MIL and I have no damn clue. I don't know how many guests will be there, I only know how many invitations I spray-glued together and how high I got while doing that. Basically, unless it's an aesthetics or design question, don't ask me. Speaking of aesthetics and design, all of my ideas are constantly shifting and what I tell you today, a month and change away from the day, has a fair chance of changing between now and then. If you want to help with decor and such, don't ask me now. Come up to me a day before and I'll happily put you to work on the final plan. Reply I thought of another rule) PLEASE stop asking me when the date is. Until the Catholic church gets back to us (he is going through the annulment process.)we won't know and can't "set" a date. And no we don't know how long that will take, ask the church because they won't tell us! Reply I have a date, it has been the same for the past 10 months…it is on our website, save the dates, invitations, and various things on Facebook. People STILL ask me when it is… Reply This actually was a *good* question we got! Well after we sent save-the-dates, we saw a bunch of old friends for the holidays. Some of them asked if we'd set a date yet. All of them should have gotten STDs! They didn't look traditional, and there was a hotly contested local election going on, so we think a lot of people from that area accidently tossed the envelope without opening it. Luckily, when enough people started asking for the date, we figure it out! Reply "You're eating that? Aren't you worried you won't fit into your dress?" Piss off. I ordered my dress a few months ago. I was between and 6 and an 8 so I ordered large because nothing sounds scarier than trying to get on a dress that doesn't fit. I've also gotten back into running with the nice weather so if anything, yes, I am eating this because if I get too skinny life will be awful. My fiance has suggested I lose a bunch of weight over the summer and then just binge on cupcakes until I fit into the dress. Assurance I am marrying the right man. lol. Reply People gave me SUCH a hard time about going whitewater kayaking 2 weeks before the wedding. Which I do almost EVERY weekend in the summer, why should a wedding change it? "You want to be able to walk down the aisle, you know…" "You don't want a black eye…" I wore my scraped up knuckles in the pictures with pride, thankyouverymuch. Reply #1, yes! Wore glasses on my day and couldn't be happier. I can't see very well without them and why would I want to miss seeing one of the most important days of my life out of vanity? I'm also not a big fan of putting stuff in my eye so no contacts were not really ever in the cards for me. Reply DO NOT ask me if I chose my grandfather to walk me down the isle because I dont feel close to my step father. It's rude,untrue and not your business. Reply The thing that drives me crazy is that people put a lot of time and passion into their own wedding plans. So when it's your turn, they think – passionately – that the choices they made are better than the choices you're making. It's really obnoxious. I've stopped talking about the wedding entirely because I can't take all of the unsolicited advice! Reply Great comments/advice in this column! Here are some of mine (whoa, gets lengthy! I apparently had some things to get off my chest!) 1) Have requests? Here's my payscale: $500 will get your request read $1000 will get your request considered $2000 will get your request strongly considered $5000 will get your request granted. Like someone else said, if its not life or death, keep it to yourself. We've had the most bizarre requests ranging from "Please don't schedule it during highschool softball season" and "we're going to hawaii during these particular weeks, can you make sure to schedule around it?" to special requests for food (even though we've already advised that we can't afford a 3rd option and have provided a few places to eat during the 2 hour downtime between ceremony and reception) 2) If you ask for a job and we give you one, don't expect us to do the leg work. It is most likely not the most urgent issue on our plate and you will stress and overwhelm us if you constantly ask questions about it. YOU do the legwork and come back to us with options.Or even a better suggestion – when first assigned a job, make a complete list of what you anticipate you'll need from us to accomplish it successfully, let us provide you those things then let us move on. Trust me, we need to be able to move on! 3) Please don't be offended or give us a guilt trip if we have to say no. Many of you may not be accustomed to our usage of the term (we're typically "yes" people, we admit it) but please understand and respect that every No we give has a logical and overly-analyzed reasoning behind it. I've said "no" to my fiance more times this past year of planning than in all the time we've been together. And if I have to tell him no (or vice versa) usually due to budget restrictions, you can damn well expect i'll be telling you no too! Please don't ask us to explain, as that will just make us feel even worse about it. Plus do you really want to dig up the "we're paying for this out of our own pockets and want to make it special but just don't have the funds. we're soooooo sorry. please don't hate us" speech? Its not pretty and may cause tears. {cont below} Reply 4) Stop telling us we should've just eloped. Or thats why you eloped. Or that we should've done a pre-paid package in Vegas. Or whatever "helpful yet snide" reply you have when I'm frustrated with something. I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO sick of the elopement response. I have nothing against eloping. Great, if thats what you want, go for it. But everytime I hear this, I can't help but think that the commentator is internally trying to justify why they chose to elope. Don't use my wedding to justify your lack of somewhat traditional wedding. You did what you wanted, let us do what we want. Yes, we want to see family and friends that we haven't seen in years. Yes we want to share this pivotal moment in our lives with our loved ones. Is that so wrong? No? Then STOP MAKING ME FEEL LIKE IT IS. If you don't want to hear me vent my frustrations, tell me and I'll stop. But stop making me feel bad about my wedding because its causing stress. Your job causes you stress, but you won't ever hear me say "well thats what you get for being a teacher (firefighter, manager, etc). Should've married someone rich" 5) This may not apply to everyone, but I'm throwing it in there as a vent for me…. As nice as it sounds, please stop reminding us that at the end of the day, the important thing is that we'll be married. Do you honestly think we've forgotten this fact? I mean, I guess some couples might but you can bet your ass that we sure haven't. We remind each other with every hand holding, every kiss and every hug. Your statement is honestly not helping. If all we wanted was to be married and then move on with our lives, then we'd get eloped. We want to share this moment and share a piece of our love with all of you. Unfortunately, some of you can be picky little bastards, lol. Signing a piece of paper together is not the stressful part. Being together is not the stressful part. Saying "I do"is not the stressful part. The guests are the stressful part! But we love you so much and care so much that you share this with us that we're willing to endure the stress, and demands, and thousands of decisions just for YOU. 6) Please continue to shower us with your unconditional love and support. You probably wouldn't guess it from my venting above, but we have truly been blessed with people around us who fully support and/or respect every decision we make. The choices we've made in our wedding party couldn't have been any more perfect. Each of them have been astounding and so very patient. Not to mention our parents and close family. Its people like these who keep us going and make us so excited for our big day! Reply After this week, I needed a post like this! Forgive me if I go on a tangent. 1) Please do not talk about your divorce when wedding planning is mentioned. I am very sorry that your first, or even second, marriage didn't work out. I really am! However, telling me about how you should've run when your father suggested escaping out the back and you actually considered it is NOT HELPFUL. This rule also applies to those who are still married after over thirty or forty years, yet they still feel the need to mention how high divorce rates are nowadays. 2) Do not ask me about the budget. Yes, we have one, but unless you plan on pitching in, it is none of your business. I don't ask you how you're planning to afford a new house or car, do I? 3) On that subject, yes, we know that we haven't settled down somewhere yet, but no, we are not going to put off the wedding until we do. We already have had a long engagement- four years by the day of the wedding- and the idea of putting it off even MORE just adds to the everyday stress we deal with. 4) Yes, we have guests that will come to the wedding and the reception, and then we have people who are invited to the reception only. Do not accuse us of picking favorites or being unfair. We are doing this for many reasons some of which are about space, accessibility, and intimacy. If you do not get invited to the wedding, just remember that you get to enjoy the best part of our wedding: the party! And all without any fuss or muss on your part! 5) This last one baffles me the most, but please, don't ask about the wedding and then remind me that it's still two years away. I know this, and you know this. Why do you feel the need to ask me about the wedding if you don't think I should be worrying about it? You're just MAKING me worry about it. Reply "DO NOT ask me if I'll be wearing my glasses on the day. I wear my glasses during every waking hour. I cannot see without them. So, at what point exactly is it sensible for me to take my glasses off?" Hahahahaha, THIS! I have actually been asked this!!! I've been wearing glasses since I was 7, I love my glasses, I have never remotely desired to wear contacts. WHY would I not wear them on my wedding day? My glasses are as much a part of me as my fingernails and my ears. Reply I love this post. I have my own list of do s and Do not's as well. Seriously considering printing it out and giving it to everyone in our families. 🙂 Reply 1)Do not try to guilt me into tradition. I will not wear a white dress, cover up my tattoos/ hide piercings or get married in a church. I'll wear what I like and show my body art. I'm not religious so me being married in a church would be expensive and dumb. (I could keep on for days, thanks to my FMIL's wine fueled tirades, but I'll leave it there.) 2)Don't suggest a big wedding. It won't happen. I'm inviting exactly who I want and no one else. 3)Don't use my wedding as your chance to start drama. (Main issue being the FMIL being hateful to the FFIL because she's not over their divorce.) You will be told to leave if you start anything. 4)Don't ask to be invited to the wedding if I haven't already invited you/expressed the intention to invite you. If I haven't done one of those two, I probably don't want you there. 5)Keep any advice to yourself unless I ask for it. The FH and I most likely have our own plans already. 6)Don't suggest tanning to me unless you want a lecture about skin cancer and how pale skin is beautiful too. 7)If you look down on me for having a low budget wedding with only the people I truly care for, keep it to yourself. I don't need a $5,000 dress to make the day special. 8)Before you ask me questions: read our wedding site. Most likely, you can find out what you want to know there. 9)Don't ask if my father is walking me down the isle. The answer to that is no, he's not even invited to the wedding. That you may ask why about. Just make it tactful. That's all I can think of currently. All of mine are a bit angry as I just got engaged, the wedding is 2 1/2 years off, and I'm already being swarmed with people and their two cents. Reply Thank you!! I have only just got engaged and planning on being married in 18 months, have only looked at 2 venues and have not thought of a specific date, yet each monday there are 2 other brides to be that ask me if I have done anything about my wedding…No!! I dont share much with you anyway so why would I share every detail of my wedding?? Then there are those people that keep coming up to me giving me bits of advice so I tell them to email me and then delete it! 🙂 makes them feel like they are helping and means I dont have to listen to advice that Im not going to follow. I love this article though. Reply 1. If it looks stupid, TELL ME! – This one is for my MOH, who knows me and what I like. She also knows I tend to get into a weird bridal zone where stuff that I normally hate, starts to look appealing. This rule does not apply to anyone else. 2. Yes, the rituals of handfasting etc. are a must. No, I will not pretend to be Christian for the ceremony just so you can feel comfortable. I'm looking at YOU, Grandma. 3. Don't nominate yourself as a member of the wedding party. You will look foolish, and make me feel bad when I have to correct you. 4. Don't assume I want to cover my tattoos. It's not going to happen. 5. If you want to help, ASK! I would love to have some help – let me know what you want to do, and if it's possible, you can just go nuts on it! Reply I made a rule I like to call the non-issue category. I love my mother dearly, and she has been so much help with my wedding planning but we tend to discuss/disagree over the same things over and over and over. So my rule was 1. if we have came to a final decision once, we don't need to discuss it again, it is a non-issue 2. If something is completely impossible and it's never going to work, or we have already paid for it and it's slightly wrong (the ringbearer shirt was about seven shades different from the groomsmen, like I'll remember that at my 50th wedding anniversary) than it's a non-issue and we aren't worrying about it. 3. If somebody has a huge problem with something and I try to accomadate them to no avail, they are looking for ways to be offendid, and can't be helped, they are therefor a non-issue and I will go on with original plans. My mother has learned now if I say non-issue, I love her dearly but the words she just said better never leave her lips again lol. Reply Yes to glasses and yes to my gray patch in my hair….its been there since high school why change it….the rest of my hair is pink and I'll be covered in spray glitter lol I'm just sick of people making that weird face they make when I tell em oh were not walking down an Ilse or me and him choose to arrive together to the ceremony as equals and not be given away….I'm not using flowers, why should they die for me and they cost wayyy too much lol again the faces made by others lol the only one thing people actually seem excited about is having to go buy a nerf gun….doing a nerf war cocktail hour lol Reply please don't mention this to my FH, He will insist upon it and the botanical gardens will throw a fit. >.< lol, It sounds really awesome, I hope y'all have a great time!! Reply I love your list, ESPECIALLY the part about not forgetting the groom! I'm newly engaged and already family members (all female, the men just say congrats and move on) have been questioning me about all these things and I'm just like, "I have no idea yet!". The one thing that is constantly irritating me about all their questions? They keep saying "You're the bride, it's your day, he can deal with it." I'm sorry, but it's OUR day, not just mine and they always say those things when I tell them "Well, FH wants this, but I want that, so we're looking for a compromise." It's gotten old already and I've not even been engaged for a full month. Reply Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign me up for your offbeat awesomeness newsletter! No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. 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Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary's no-kill philosophy was compromised Thursday when dogs were reportedly euthanized at the Georgetown facility.
UPDATE: According to the ASPCA, there were 105 dogs sheltered at Safe Haven when the organization arrived to take over operations on Oct. 16. Since then, the ASPCA says they assisted in placing 86 dogs, which includes adoptions and relocation to other shelters and rescue groups. The ASPCA says 19 dogs were humanely euthanized on Thursday. The remaining 22 dogs were transported to shelters and rescue groups throughout Delaware, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey where they will be housed, cared for and eventually made available for adoption. Additionally, two dogs were adopted directly from Safe Haven. The shelter is now closed.
Lynn Lofthouse, a member of the Safe Haven board of directors, released a statement to the media Friday afternoon confirming the dogs were euthanized. There is still no word on why the shelter decided to close early.
Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary's no-kill philosophy was compromised Thursday when dogs were reportedly euthanized at the Georgetown facility.
A post made around 7 p.m. Thursday on the shelter's now-deleted Facebook page states that some dogs, due to severe behavior issues, were such a threat to other animals or humans that they were unsuitable for adoption.
"Some dogs were humanely euthanized," the post reads. "We are grateful for all of the lives that were saved and the support that we received during this difficult time."
Even though officials at Safe Haven told the public they would be adopting out dogs through the end of the month, the doors of the shelter are now locked and all the kennels are empty.
Without notice, workers from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which took over day-to-day operations at the shelter last month, loaded the dogs that were not euthanized into several vehicles Thursday afternoon and drove them to an undisclosed location.
The number of dogs that were euthanized and the number that were transported have not yet been made available to the public.
A statement released Friday by the ASPCA says at Safe Haven's request, the organization responded to the shelter on Oct. 16 to deploy a team of professionals to assist in the daily care – feeding, watering and exercising – of dogs housed at the shelter. According to the statement, the ASPCA conducted behavior evaluations of the dogs to help Safe Haven determine their placement options.
"Safe Haven was responsible for the ultimate outcome of each animal," the statement reads. "With help from Delaware's extended sheltering and rescue community, an overwhelming majority of these dogs were eventually placed or adopted."
The ASPCA confirmed Safe Haven's post regarding dogs that were euthanized because they were deemed unsuitable for adoption.
"The last of Safe Haven's dogs were transported to shelters and rescue groups where they can be housed, cared for and eventually made available for adoption," the statement reads.
The ASPCA did not specify where the dogs were taken.
Several local animal advocates traveled to the shelter, located at 19022 Shingle Point Road, on Thursday after they were told, reportedly by Safe Haven officials, they could adopt the remaining dogs. However these people were turned away by the ASPCA, who eventually called the Delaware State Police and reported the prospective adopters were trespassing on private property.
Jamie Werner, a former Safe Haven employee, said he went to the shelter to adopt a dog he'd bonded with while working there.
"All I know is they told everybody to come save the dogs," Werner said. "I came to save a dog and now I'm being told they'd rather kill it."
Speculations surrounding whether the ASPCA was euthanizing the remaining dogs onsite were initially discounted by Capt. Sean Moriarty of DSP Troop 4 in Georgetown. Moriarty said he saw the dogs inside a large ASPCA truck, and they were all alive.
"I'm not sure exactly where they're going; mostly out of state. Some are going to a facility in the state, but we don't know where," Moriarty said on Thursday at Safe Haven. "[The police] are here to make sure everybody is safe and everybody is okay. Obviously we don't have any control over where they're going to go or what the policies are. We're just here to make sure everybody is safe."
It is unclear at this time how many dogs were transported out of Safe Haven. Last week, Lynn Lofthouse, a member of the shelter's board of directors, told The Sussex Countian there were 70 dogs remaining in the shelter and they would be available for adoption until the shelter closed its doors on Nov. 30. However, the advocates at Safe Haven on Thursday claim there were about 20 dogs left in the shelter.
Tacia McIlvaine, of Seaford, went to Safe Haven on Thursday after she was reportedly told by a Safe Haven official that she could adopt two of the remaining dogs. Like the others, she was turned away by the ASPCA.
"The ASPCA told the police the dogs I was here to get were not in the building, and they had already been placed on transport," she said. "I just don't know what to say. We wanted to get these dogs out of here. There have been people here to adopt the dogs and they won't allow anybody to do it."
Lisa St. Clair, of the recently-formed Delaware No Kill Alliance, also went to Safe Haven Thursday to adopt two dogs. St. Clair said all she wants is to know where the dogs are being taken.
"I feel helpless and scared and hopeless," she said. "All we've asked for is a list of the rescues they're taking them to. I think that's a pretty reasonable thing. The ASPCA is the liaison and they're not authorized to give us any information."
Lofthouse did not respond to several phone calls requesting comment for this report.


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SWELTERING overnight temperatures have broken records across the Hunter, with some of the highest minimums recorded in more than 40 years.
At Cessnock the thermometer hovered at just below 30 degrees until 9 am Wednesday, with an overnight minimum of 29.7 easily surpassing the previous record of 26.5 set on January 9, 1983.
The late arrival of a southerly change brought some short-lived respite, dropping the temperature a glorious 5 degrees between 9am and 9.04am – from 33 degrees to 28 degrees, and down to 26.7 by 9.30am.
Lostock Dam and Maitland also experienced record overnight minimums of 28.5 and 26.7 respectively, the highest since weather stations were established at those locations more than 40 years ago.
At Cooranbong in Lake Macquarie it was still 34 degrees at midnight on Tuesday.
Being closer to the coast, the southerly arrived there earlier and hit stronger, bringing the mercury down to 22 degrees by 6.30am.
Newcastle limped through the night at 30 degrees until 5.45am when it dropped dramatically to 24, thanks to that southerly.
The highest overnight minimum temperature recorded at Nobbys in Newcastle in 55 years was 26 degrees on February 6, 2011.
At Merewether the temperature was still 34 degrees at 11pm when Paula Birch snapped a few photos on her iPhone, capturing what she described as surreal scenes of young families keeping cool in the ocean baths (see the image on Page 1).
''I actually went down at 9.30 and then went back at 11pm for a swim and it was still packed,'' she said.
''It was really surreal, it was like the Olympics, everyone was just sort of in it together. There was this strange, surreal moonlit midnight swim vibe.
''There was a lot of younger kids there, I was quite surprised.''
Weatherwatch meteorologist Anthony Cornelius said most centres in the Hunter had ''quite a warm night'' on Tuesday, with the southerly change not coming through until the morning.
In Newcastle the southerly came through about 5.45am when the temperature dropped from 29.8 to 24 degrees, but it arrived later inland and was less substantial, leaving areas like Scone with highs of nearly 40 degrees again yesterday.
And there is more hot weather to come, starting tomorrow with the arrival of a second trough similar to that which brought high temperatures earlier in the week, dragging more heat east towards the coast on the westerly winds.
''The north-north-westerly will be back on Friday and Saturday so inland areas will be as warm again, in the low 40s, but it will be a battle of the north-westerly and a sea breeze on the coast, where it will be slightly cooler,'' he said.
The forecast for Cessnock and Maitland on Saturday is 40 degrees, and 34 for Newcastle.
A change is due late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, possibly bringing some showers.
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